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Meet Microsoft's Linux Lab Head Bill Hilf
morcego writes "Yahoo News has a very interesting interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's director of Microsoft's platform technology strategy group, who in turn works for Martin Taylor, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy and Linux point man. From the interview: '"I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microsoft," Hilf said.'"
What's up with the 'nothing to see' errors? I have been getting plenty of them lately.
I am a non-Microsoft guy working at Microsoft.
Funny, that statement could also apply to Laura DiDio.
Bill Hilf is a TRAITOR! Lets tar and feather him! Have him drawn and quartered! Send him off the plank! Put him in an iron maiden!
Grammar Nazi
From article: "In addition to acting Microsoft's good cop on open source, Hilf also runs the Microsoft Linux lab" Is this Microsoft Linux distro open-source? Where do I get it?
Aha, he's being very open for a Linux spy in Microsoft.
Admirable.
Damn you, dbretton. I come to Slashdot (amongst other places) so I don't have to do anything important.
Agreed. Had he been a non-microsoft guy working at microsoft with a chainsaw, then we'd have had something. :)
"It's like my pool is TEARIN' ASS 'round my backyard!" --Carl, From Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
My office has gnu/linux and windows.....
We use Fedora Core for work, games, everything computer based. We use windows for looking out.
Hilf? As in "hacker I'd like to fuck"?
"We get to find out lots of interesting things -- like how to authenticate against Active Directory, how to run non-Microsoft mail clients with Exchange," and the like, [Bill Hilf] said.
"Once we figure a way to for other products to interoperate with Microsoft, my job is to modify our product so the other products won't work," he added. "It's helps a great deal when I get to look at our competitors code, but they can't see ours."
At this point, he chuckled a bit to himself while twisting his pencil-thin mustache with his fingers.
Software Wars
I assume you mean: ship us off to the Gulag
surely this is true, but in order to facilitate the
destroy[ing] us all with a ray gun.
he'll want to ship
us off to the Galapacos[sic] Islands
to increase the odds of running across the required sharks with laser beams
man, I feel like mold.
I'm a dev on Longhorn
My sincere condolences.
...at least now we know who to blame.
Who cares about the ozone layer?...thanks to CFC's I can write my name......IN CHEESE!!!